Luke 2:22

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Jesus’ Presentation at the Temple Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

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  • Lev 12:1-8 : 1 Purification of a Woman after Childbirth The LORD spoke to Moses: 2 “Tell the Israelites,‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation. 3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised. 4 Then she will remain thirty-three days in blood purity. She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled. 5 If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity. 6 “‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering to the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to the priest. 7 The priest is to present it before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean from her flow of blood. This is the law of the one who bears a child, for the male or the female child. 8 If she cannot afford a sheep, then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’”

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  • Luke 2:23-24
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    23(just as it is written in the law of the Lord,“Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

    24and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

  • Luke 2:27-28
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    27So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

    28Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,

  • Luke 2:20-21
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    20So the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen; everything was just as they had been told.

    21At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

  • Luke 2:38-46
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    38At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

    39So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

    40And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

    41Jesus in the Temple Now Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem every year for the Feast of the Passover.

    42When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

    43But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

    44but(because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

    45When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.

    46After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

  • Lev 12:2-8
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    2“Tell the Israelites,‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

    3On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

    4Then she will remain thirty-three days in blood purity. She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.

    5If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.

    6“‘When the days of her purification are completed for a son or for a daughter, she must bring a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or turtledove for a sin offering to the entrance of the Meeting Tent, to the priest.

    7The priest is to present it before the LORD and make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean from her flow of blood. This is the law of the one who bears a child, for the male or the female child.

    8If she cannot afford a sheep, then she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering, and the priest is to make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.’”

  • Luke 2:6-7
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    6While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.

    7And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

  • Lev 14:22-23
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    22and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which are within his means. One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

    23“On the eighth day he must bring them for his purification to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the LORD,

  • Lev 15:14
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    14Then on the eighth day he is to take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and he is to present himself before the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent and give them to the priest,

  • Matt 1:22
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    22This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled:

  • Luke 1:56-57
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    56So Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home.

    57The Birth of John Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.

  • Matt 2:21
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    21So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

  • Luke 1:80
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    80And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

  • Luke 2:17
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    17When they saw him, they related what they had been told about this child,

  • Luke 1:59
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    59On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

  • Lev 14:2
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    2“This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when he is brought to the priest.

  • Lev 15:29-30
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    29Then on the eighth day she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and she must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent,

    30and the priest is to make one a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. So the priest is to make atonement for her before the LORD from her discharge of impurity.

  • Matt 2:15
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    15He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled:“I called my Son out of Egypt.”

  • Luke 2:33
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    33So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.

  • Num 6:13
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    13Fulfilling the Vows“‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he must be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

  • Luke 1:23
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    23When his time of service was over, he went to his home.

  • Acts 21:26
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    26Then Paul took the men the next day, and after he had purified himself along with them, he went to the temple and gave notice of the completion of the days of purification, when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.

  • Num 6:10
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    10On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

  • Luke 1:75-76
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    75in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.

    76And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

  • Luke 2:12
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    12This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”

  • 1 Sam 1:24
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    24Then she took him up with her as soon as she had weaned him, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She came to the LORD’s house at Shiloh, and the boy was with them.

  • Luke 2:48
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    48When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him,“Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.”

  • Luke 1:8-9
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    8Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

    9he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the holy place of the Lord and burn incense.